Tag: conventions

The Dragons Ride Again

It seems like forever ago that a ragtag bunch of newpub, Baen, and Castalia House authors dominated the first annual Dragon Awards. That day was an early career highlight, and I'm still thankful to my readers and supporters. What would become the current dissident scene was still taking shape back…

July 7, 20233 Comments

Yet Learning Nothing

Readers will recall the court case brought by best selling author Jon Del Arroz that rustled some jimmies in oldpub over the summer. SFF death cultists harped on the fact that Worldcon 2018 only paid Jon $4000 as part of their settlement. On Jon's stream, which I was fortunate to…

December 10, 20219 Comments

Sound Advice

A common dissident critique of Conservatism holds that it failed to conserve anything. This accusation may sound cliché now, but it's so self-evident that Conservatives don't even try to refute it. Instead they fall back on scare tactics like warning that the Hamburglar will take over the country unless we…

June 9, 202112 Comments

The Dragon Sleeps

... and Scalzi grows stronger! Check out the 2020 Dragon Award ballot, and you'll see what I mean. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale to lesbian vampire stories to a writer so deranged even Disney fired him, this year's Dragon ballot reads like the canon of Death Cult humiliation…

August 12, 202025 Comments

Dragon Con Interview

Recently the folks at Dragon Con interviewed a number of Dragon Award-winning authors, including me, They asked a series of writing-related questions via email and will be showcasing various authors' answers in a series of posts on their web site. Here are some highlights from their first post. Now in…

July 28, 2020

Stay Away from Conventions

Author Jon Del Arroz reports on yet another deplatforming of a major science fiction author from a convention. This time, it was astrophysicist and Reason Magazine editor Gregory Benford who ran afoul of the SJW hatemob. Gregory Benford thought he was just speaking on another panel, something he’d done dozens of times…

November 28, 201820 Comments

No Quartering Given

Jeremy Hambly, the popular host of YouTube nerd culture channel The Quartering, was assaulted in the wee hours of Thursday morning at an Indianapolis bar while in town attending Gen Con. According to Hambly, a man in a sleeveless rainbow tee shirt approached him, asked his name, and proceeded to…

August 4, 201826 Comments

#owngoals: World Con Edition

Courtesy of author Yakov Merkin Even before the Campaign to End Puppy-related Sadness was a glimmer in Larry Correia's eye, it was an open secret among normal SFF fans and authors that World Con had entered terminal decline. If you don't know what World Con is, you're not alone, and…

July 24, 201818 Comments

Dragon Con Fires SJW

In a refreshing turn of events, the Dragon Con admins appear to have learned from their past mistakes. Author Jon Del Arroz has the story: Dragon Con faced a quiet coup attempt by their Literary Track head named Charlotte Stromborn. She was originally in charge of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern track…

June 11, 20189 Comments

A Little Love Note

Friend of the blog Bradford Walker has clued me in to some encouraging developments in the unfolding #ConGate drama. The first response comes from best selling author John Ringo, who was disinvited from ConCarolinas last month: This is a strong suggestion to any decent author, especially all Baen authors. If…

May 17, 20187 Comments